Vanessa Holroyd, flute

Flutist Vanessa Holroyd is a frequent soloist with the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music and was a featured performer with the ensemble at the 2024 BachFest in Leipzig, Germany. She is a tenured member of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra and has performed with the Boston Ballet Orchestra, the Portland (ME) Symphony, the Boston Philharmonic, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic, among other regional ensembles. Vanessa has focused much of her professional career around chamber music including collaborations with Radius, the Worcester Chamber Music Society, Worcester Music’s “The Complete Bach” project, the Arneis Quartet, the Apple Hill String Quartet, the Craft Ensemble, pianist Joy Cline Phinney, guitarist Peter Clemente, and her current project, TriChrome with violist Daniel Doña and harpist Franziska Huhn. For ten years, Vanessa was a member of Arcadian Winds, a woodwind quintet specializing in contemporary music and recipient of Chamber Music America’s “Residency Partnership Grant.” With the quintet and with other ensembles, Vanessa premiered numerous works and collaborated on recording projects for Centaur, PARMA, BMOP, and ECS Publishing. An experienced arts executive, Vanessa has recently been appointed as Emmanuel Music’s next Executive Director. She led the entertainment agency, Music Management as co-owner from 2012 to 2022, having priorly served as a Senior Sales Associate beginning in 1998. With Music Management, Vanessa produced over 800 events per year, employing hundreds of local musicians at performance venues such as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Fenway Park, and the White House. She is the former Concert Series Manager and Concert Tour Director for Phillips Exeter Academy, where she managed the prestigious Gilbert Concert Series and curated performance tours to Vietnam, Canada, California, and New York. Vanessa is currently on the woodwind faculty of the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division and Emmanuel Music’s Bach Institute. She has performed and taught as a guest faculty artist at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music since 2007 and frequently works with the students of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. She holds a B.A. in Literature from Yale University, a M.Mus. in Flute Performance from McGill University, an Artist Diploma from the Longy School of Music of Bard College and is ever grateful to her teachers: Geralyn Coticone, Robert Willoughby, Timothy Hutchins, Michael Parloff, and Elssa Green.